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Forgotten scripts : their ongoing discovery and decipherment

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Forgotten scripts : their ongoing discovery and decipherment

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Extinct languages, Inscriptions -- History, Writing -- History, Langues mortes, Écriture -- Histoire, Inscriptions -- Histoire, Inscriptions, Writing, Entzifferung, Geschichte, Schrift, Ecriture -- Histoire
Publisher
New York : Basic Books
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internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled
Contributor
Internet Archive
Language
English
Title (alternate script)
None
Author (alternate script)
None
Item Size
579.1M
xxi, 226 pages : 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214)

Includes indexes

Codes and ciphers -- The decipherment of Egyptian -- Grotefend's decipherment of Old Persian -- Reclaiming the Sumero-Akkadian legacy -- Cuneiform and hieroglyphic Hittite -- Ugaritic : decipherment and impact -- The Aegean syllabary -- The Ebla archives -- A sampling of unlocked treasures
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2018-12-14 02:58:48
Bookplateleaf
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IA1511620
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Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control)
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printdisabled
External-identifier
urn:lcp:forgottenscripts0000gord:lcpdf:4659af61-c0e6-4de9-b45c-8b701a5bd7c6
urn:lcp:forgottenscripts0000gord:epub:5c0c8be4-4bdf-4e58-9efe-44c701e63cd4
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forgottenscripts0000gord
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Invoice
1652
Isbn
046502484X
9780465024841
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